highdigger
Verified Military
I'm in the military. Have russian language skills, clearance, but not much experience in the field besides being native speaker. Looking for any advice on how to apply for the government positions.
I see there are lots of open contracting positions for russian linguist/language enabled intel analyst. And those positions don't fill up quickly popping up with different contractors again and again. The same story with government positions. I've been monitoring usajobs the same positions come up again and again. Agency posts it for a 2-4 weeks, closes it and posts again in couple months. However when I apply for them I get zero response or feedback. Three letter agencies haven't even called me back after I filled applications on their websites. I know there's obvious shortage of such linguists with clearance. I have such clearance and some contractors are willing to pay 100 grand with no experience in the field and ready even wait 6 months when I'm separated from the service. I'd stay in but afraid my career progression wouldn't be as good and I end up doing some dumb work unrelated stuff. Contractors want me now and government is ignoring me? What's up with it? Government relies on civillian contractors in this field or those actual government positions are made for very specific people criteria? Advice needed.
thanks
I see there are lots of open contracting positions for russian linguist/language enabled intel analyst. And those positions don't fill up quickly popping up with different contractors again and again. The same story with government positions. I've been monitoring usajobs the same positions come up again and again. Agency posts it for a 2-4 weeks, closes it and posts again in couple months. However when I apply for them I get zero response or feedback. Three letter agencies haven't even called me back after I filled applications on their websites. I know there's obvious shortage of such linguists with clearance. I have such clearance and some contractors are willing to pay 100 grand with no experience in the field and ready even wait 6 months when I'm separated from the service. I'd stay in but afraid my career progression wouldn't be as good and I end up doing some dumb work unrelated stuff. Contractors want me now and government is ignoring me? What's up with it? Government relies on civillian contractors in this field or those actual government positions are made for very specific people criteria? Advice needed.
thanks